the Patriotic League, as members of a secret society. They have discovered, they say, that the League is a political organisation, and that a plan for throwing its members into...

T HE Tirard Government, with considerable adroitness, has cancelled the decree banishing the Duc d'Aumale, and the Duke, who, with all his experience of exile, likes France...

Buda-Pesth on Wednesday night, declares himself "in a position to guarantee the absolute authenticity of the following intelligence." The Austrian Government has issued urgent...

Willis's Rooms yesterday week, at which Lord Spencer and Mr. Parnell shook hands amidst enthusiastic cheering. Lord Spencer's speech was lengthy, and contained a forecast of the...

Paris detest the copper syndicate, which has em- barrassed many trades ; and their organs assert that M. Rouvier, the Finance Minister, persuaded the Bank of France to advance...

case.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, March 30ih, will be issued, 'gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages .of which will be devoted to Advertisements....

on authority, concluded a defensive and offensive league. The two Boer States are therefore fused for certain purposes, and as they can only be attacked by the British...

Monday, in a speech which elicited warm approval, though the total amount demanded is 2597,000 in excess of the Estimate of last year, and the number of men, 152,000, is...

constituencies of Ireland as "a most miserable and despicable body." And as Lord Spencer a minute or two later stated that he should have been "a mean and despicable individual"...

the Commission has adjourned for a fortnight to enable Sir Charles Russell to prepare his defence, which is expected to be an elaborate and brilliant performance. Mr. Parnell,...

his Bill requiring that persons imprisoned under the Crimes Act should be treated as first-class misdemeanants. His main argument, apart from attacks on the Chief Secretary and...

ticular locality goes, in showing that the exposure of the forged letters has had little effect one way or the other on the Irish Question. The Liberal majority in 1885 was...

valued the opinion of Lord Spencer more than the opinion of "a hundred mushrooms such as Balfour, who are here to-day and will be gone to-morrow." Was not that a little vulgar,...

clear that he abdicated from patriotic motives. He told the corre- spondent of the Neue Preie Presse that he felt he could not endure to be a roi faineant or constitutional...

Association for Befriending Young Servants (18 Buckingham Street, Strand), at which the Lord Mayor made so earnest an appeal for further funds for that most useful Association,...

help him in his canvas for Kennington, in which he makes much of the defeat on Wednesday of the Bill for entitling prisoners under the Irish Crimes Act to exceptionally good...

Tuesday, was one of those perfect efforts of impartial state- ment which read as if man were really a being of "pure reason,"—instead of having about 1 per cent. of "pure...

Wednesday was much more violent than weighty. Mr. Morley wound himself up into talking a good deal of nonsense. Indeed, no one who had followed the story of the reiterated...

his usual dignity and force, delivered on Wednesday, at Holloway Hall, West Islington, pointed out that the great question of the day is this,—" Whether law, as constituted by...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 971 to 97i.

THE BARNSLEY ELECTION. E Barnsley (West Riding) election is at least as satisfactory in its evidence as to the state of feeling in the country as any by-election taken at the...

THE French Ministry still avoid an open conflict with General Boulanger, but they are creeping nearer and nearer towards it, and have commenced hostilities against his...

I T is most difficult, nearly impossible, to reason quietly with Gladstonians upon Irish subjects. Even when they abstain from mere vituperation, which is very seldom, and...

A NY one who has compared carefully the style and manner of Lord Derby's speech on Tuesday to the Unionists of Kent, with Mr. F. Harrison's letters of Monday and Wednesday in...

T HE House of Commons on Tuesday accepted the Government plan of military defence with unex- pected readiness and placidity. There was plenty of room for sharp controversy, for...

I N sporting circles, and, indeed, among the public generally, a considerable amount of interest has been excited over a judicial decision in regard to betting, given during the...

in exceedingly large gains made with unusual rapidity. At least, that is the only way in which we can account for the extraordinary stupidity which men of undoubted ability...

T HE Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford has published, in the form of a Lenten pastoral, a very able summary of the Roman Question from the Catholic point of view. In many of its...

W E quoted last week the opinion of a contemporary that Mr. Pigott's suicide went far "to atone for his mani- fold misdeeds ;" and though the meaning may only have been that by...

CASTELLAR AND GORBIO. I mA.Y probably be told that these villages are well known to most people. But to judge from one's own experience, those who know them already will be...

A PROTEST. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your note in the Spectator of March 9th on Sir George Trevelyan's speech at Cambridge, you suggest that Mr. Parnell is...

TO TES Eprros 07 THE " SPECTATOR." J you have been ventilating the above subject, perhaps a few particulars about Sir Boyle Roche, the high-priest of Irish "bulls," might be...

" TOUJOURS L'AUDACE!" ONCE in our lives we know what men we are : In common hours we live as common men, Our valour not true valour; and a star Shines not more distant than...

copied the following from an Irish newspaper in 1887: —" So long as Ireland was silent under her wrongs, England was deaf to her cries."—I am, Sir, &c.,

INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS. THE present Institute exhibition differs little from its usual -character, and is perhaps not below the accustomed average. There is a...

THOMAS DRUMMOND.* THis new memoir of Drummond has its origin in the discovery by his widow of a number of interesting letters, throwing fresh light on his work and character....

which had the modesty to think that a short lease of existence might suit some kinds of composite literary bodies better than even an aspiration after immortality,—an aspiration...

"HARRY the King" could hardly be left out of a series dealing with "Men of Action," for he was almost incessantly employed, from his boyhood to his death, in strenuous labours...

IT has often been said, and said quite truly, that recent American art, both plastic and literary, shows various traces of French influence; but it is very easy to exaggerate...

WHAT Dorothy Forster is to "the '45," Mr. Besant's new historical novel, For Faith and Freedom, is to the miserable and shameful episodes of Monmouth's Rebellion and the Bloody...

MR. NOEL'S poem is a plea, to put the matter briefly, for belief,—belief, that is, in the moral government of the world. His conception of his hero is in itself, it may be...

There are good things in the March number of the English. Illustrated Magazine, yet on the whole it has a dull and spiritless look. But for the papers on" Leeds" and "Kensington...

by Celtic Heathendom. By John Rhys. (Williams and Norgate.)—It would be rude to pass by this learned book without notice. As for a review, that would be a task which is...

and varied. Among the miscellaneous articles, we note as excep- tionally good, Miss Mabel Robinson's "Children in Italian Sculp- ture." The serial fiction, contributed chiefly...

on the same lines as the late Mrs. Henry Wood. Could he not make some new departure, or introduce some fresh blood into the magazine ? In the March number, his own description...

Shake- speare, edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall. (Blackie and Son.)—This volume contains King Henry V., The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, As You...

Beck. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Miss Beck does not always give us exactly what she promises ; indeed, often she has not the means of doing so. She gives a little sketch, for...

There is nothing that is really weak in the March number, although Mr. Arthur Marvell's roundel might have been dispensed with, and Miss Ella Ciutis's short story of "10.30...

he tells us, "collected," are really charming. The volume contains five long and five short stories, and some dozen or so morsels, so to speak, of folk-lore, as Mr. Thornhill...

(Isbister.)—Mr. Peek here republishes two articles which appeared in the Contemporary Review, and attracted at the time much atten- tion from those who had studied the...

solidity rather than of distinction. It is evident that Mr. R. Louis Stevenson's "The Master of Ballantrae " will be his most ambitious and most serious venture in the field of...

(twenty-sixth annual publication) to such a pitch of perfection as regards arrangement, variety of contents, and accuracy in points of detail, that it can hardly be improved. We...

and publisher.—Miss Wilcox, who describes herself as a "Counselor- at-Law "—(we hope that novel-writing is not as fatal to professional success across the Atlantic as it is...

Heber Evans, B.A. (Nisbet and Co.)—We have not been able hitherto to agree with the speculations of Mr. Evans about the authorship of New Testament books. They seemed to us, to...

Edition of 1661, by Rev. W. Campbell. (Triibner and Co.)—This is an interesting record of a long-past work. About the middle of the seventeenth century, the Reformed Church of...

a certain novelty of form and matter, in four volumes which bear the common title of Japan in Days of Yore, and are introduced to the English public by Mr. Walter Denning, the...

The Municipal Corporations Act, 1882. By Walter C. Ryde, M.A.., and E. Lewis Thomas, M.A. (Butterworths.)—The Anglo-Indian Codes. Edited by Whiteley Stokes, D.C.L. Vol. II....

Bodley's Librarian, and is, we need hardly say, an interesting document. After a brief sketch of the past history of the Library, Mr. Nicholson goes on to speak of recent...

.,Eneid of Virgil (Deighton, Bell, and Co. ; G. Bell and Sons) appears in separate volumes, or, if it be preferred, in volumes containing two books each. After all that has been...

Day." —The Magazine of Art.—The English Illustrated Magazine.—The Scottish Art Review.—No. 9 of Artistic Japan.—Art and Literature. —Illustrations.—The Theological...